Category: Faculty & Staff

Jussie Smollett, the 36-year-old openly gay actor and singer known for his role as Jamal Lyon in the television drama Empire, will have his day of reckoning, for good or bad. He has been charged by Chicago police with felony disorderly conduct. Smollett allegedly filed a false police report after orchestrating a repulsive hate-crime attack against…

Last weekend, Dr. Pamela Lightsey, our Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs, helped organize and participated in a protest and teach-in event, El Grito de la Frontera/The Cry From the Border, in El Paso, Texas. As one of the signatories of both the Boston Declaration and the All Rights for All/Todos Derechos Para Todos campaign, Dr. Lightsey called public theologians, religion…

Dr. Mike Hogue, Professor of Theology, Ethics, and Philosophy of Religion, introduces his new book, American Immanence: Democracy for an Uncertain World. [This is a transcript of the video below.] If you are at all like me, then you’ve been really disturbed and unsettled by all that’s happening in the world right now. The election of…

Rev. Dr. Pamela Lightsey delivered a rousing sermon at Spring Intensives Opening Worship, March 19, 2018. Below is an excerpt.  Text: The Words of Audre Lorde “I see protest as a genuine means of encouraging someone to feel the inconsistencies, the horror, of the lives we are living. Social protest is to say that we do…